The Czech Night Hawk
Over three years ago, I did a posting about a British television programme on the life of a wartime night fighter pilot, a Czech called Karel Kuttelwascher. He was my wife’s father and we were both interviewed for the programme which has been broadcast several times since then.
Karel Kuttelwascher died – of a heart attack aged just 42 – 50 years ago this month. To mark the occasion, a Czech version of the programme has been produced and will be broadcast on Czech television this evening. We’ve been sent a copy of the DVD and it’s weird to see oneself on television dubbed into Czech.
Karel Kuttelwascher was an amazing character and my biography of him was published in Britain in 1985 and in the Czech Republic in 1993. You can read a summary of his exploits here.